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The eighth set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly snobby blue state gourmands sneer at salt water taffy and chili-cheese fries

Some films I inadvertantly overlooked earlier head this list: first, William Peter Blatty’s wonderfully atmospheric cult classic, The Ninth Configuration, as well as the Bronson / Lee Marvin Canadian wilderness actioneer, Death Hunt. The rest of the list ranges from the sublime (The Dresser, and Martin Scorsese’s underappreciated, The King of Comedy) to the ridiculous (D.C. Cab, Flashdance). Cult favorites include Local Hero andEddie the Cruisers.

Can we safely assume from this list that you spent the entirety of 1983 in the local theater? I can see you now with a sleeping bag somewhere in the 9th row, surrounded by Raisinets, Goobers, Popcorn grease and empty cups.

OC and Stiggs – Robert Altman directs,(in his post-Popeye, pre-Player free fall) the characters are the missing link between Cheech and Chong and Bill and Ted, and Dennis Hopper as a virtual continuation of his Apocalypse Now persona. A bit uneven, but I think it deserves much more recognition than it gets.

Hmm. Looks like it’s been released on DVD in the UK, so a domestic release might be in the offing. I’ll check it out then. I lost track of Altman during most of the 80s, but I’m always willing to give him a go.

I haven’t met many other film buffs who dig Osterman, but it really is a tight piece of thriller-candy, and certainly a lot less self-indulgent than a lot of crap in the same genre.

Cf. the Peter Hyams remake of Narrow Margin, with Gene Hackman, which got a lot of flack for being paced like a an instruction manual for a 1936 Simplicity but is actually a great piece of atmospheric film work.

Then again, I’ve always said I’d pay good money to see Hackman read the phone book aloud.

Anyway, it belongs. Cheesy as hell, but it remarkably influential—spawning a host of other “dance to express yourself” films that, not surprisingly, were every bit as corny. But they didn’t have Jennifer B in an off-the-shoulder cut-up sweatshirt and legwarmers.

Aren’t you still working on the 70s? (I found a couple of additional flicks from that decade I’d recommend that I hadn’t yet seen when I made the original lists: St Ives (w/ Charles Bronson), Race with the Devil (with Warren Oates and Peter Fonda). Also, not sure if I included Straw Dogs and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

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